Jimmy Fallon seemingly left 'uncomfortable' after Helen Mirren claims popular fruit is 'bisexual'
Topics: Jimmy Fallon, US News
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Topics: Jimmy Fallon, US News
Dame Helen Mirren has shocked the world by pretending to stimulate a popular fruit that she claims comes from a 'bisexual' flower.
It's not something you see everyday - a Dame showcasing how you should pleasure food, and it's certainly not what Jimmy Fallon expected to see when he invited the Oscar-winner onto his show.
Both the 80-year-old and Pierce Brosnan appeared as guests on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon to promote their new picture, The Thursday Murder Club, but it took an unexpected turn when they started talking about tomatoes.
Fallon whipped out a chopping board with all the ingredients needed to make salsa - including a plush red tomato, which wowed Mirren.
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As the host began to explain what was on the board, the star interjected: "Incidentally, I just want to give you a tip about growing tomatoes. You know the little flower? Well, a good way to get a tomato out of a flower is you have to tremble the flower like this."
She then began to mimic as if she was stimulating the tomato flower with her finger, gently and slowly waggling it up and down.
A smiling Fallon, who looked a uncomfortable watching Mirren actioning how to 'tremble' a tomato plant, then said: "Stop doing that. What's going on? I don’t know what’s going on, I don’t know what’s happening."
Mirren then insisted that it's legitimate and horticultural, before Fallon responded: "I'm not doing that at all to my tomatoes! Killing it is one thing, doing that is something else."
The actor then stressed that he's 'got to', before bizarrely touching on the sexuality of a tomato.
"A tomato is a bisexual thing you see,” she claimed. "Well, it is!"
Mirren continued: "I looked it up very recently because I had a problem with my tomatoes. So, it’s bisexual. So you have to go around to each flower and go like this [proceeds to wiggle her finger again]."
Fallon replied: "Yes, I got you, I understand, I understand. Each one."
So, let's get into the science of it. Technically, tomatoes aren't bisexual but the tomato flower that it comes from is - in botanical terms.
Which means each flower has both male and female parts. The male parts are called stamens, which make pollen, while the female part is the pistil, which receives the pollen and grows the fruit.
Since both parts are in the same flower, it can fertilize itself - this is called self-pollination.
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